Baseball’s 15 Biggest One-Hit Wonders of All-Time

MARK PRIOR, SP, CUBS, 2003

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Prior can blame it all on Bartman. The former second overall pick of the 2001 draft had a nice rookie season in ’02, but then excelled the following year by striking out 245 batters, notching an 18-6 record with just a 2.43 ERA, which put him third in the voting for the Cy Young Award. But in Game 6 of the NLCS, Prior was on the mound with a three-run lead against Florida when Steve Bartman took away the foul ball from Moises Alou. The Marlins then scored eight runs in the inning and the Cubs ended up losing the series. Prior spent parts of the next three seasons on the disabled list, and never pitched again in the majors after that.

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While Brady Anderson’s meteoric 52 HRs might have seemed phenomenal, many have speculated he had a little “help” from steroids. It’s simply defies logic for such a drastic improvement followed immediately by an incredible drop off from that 52 dinger season.

I think a little bit of research might be helpful here. Mark Fidrych wasn’t derailed by a dead arm caused by a heavy work load. He injured his knee and did not report it which led to an arm injury. I guess some people just don’t care about accurate reporting any more.